Aoun Vows to Cut Tongues and Hands
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun predicted that the forthcoming parliamentary elections would be against "the Aounists. It would be a universal battle in which air and maritime fleets would be deployed."
"But we would win," Aoun told a press conference after the weekly meeting by his Change and reform Bloc members at his residence in Rabiyeh.
Aoun also said Premier Fouad Saniora, progressive Socialist party leader Walid Jumblat and Mustaqbal Movement leader Saad Hariri should be referred to a court of law on charges of "hurting relations with Syria."
He also launched a vehement attack on the leading daily an-Nahar accusing it of "misguiding" readers for publishing a report about alleged wiretapping of communications allowed by Minister of Communications Gebran Bassil.
Bassil, a member of Aoun”s FPM, "would apply law 140. We would cut the tongue that targets us and chop off the hand that stretches at us," Aoun Pledged.